Regulations and Regulatory Advocacy
Webinar held Aug. 14, 2018
Regulatory Advisory
Presentation slides
Video recording:
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a final rule updating Medicare’s hospice payment rates, wage index and quality reporting requirements for fiscal year 2019.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued corrected preview reports for the Discharge to Community measure in the Long-term Care Hospital Quality Reporting Program for review before the data is added to the LTCH Compare website in October.
House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent letters to nine contract pharmacies that participate in the 340B drug savings program requesting information about their participation in the program.
Effective Jan. 1, The Joint Commission will require accredited hospitals with at least 300 live births per year to report the percentage of infants with unexpected newborn complications among full-term newborns with no pre-existing conditions.
The Food and Drug Administration is forming a work group to explore whether and how to temporarily import suitable substitutes for critical drugs with only one manufacturer.
AHA expresses disappointment that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is shutting down the National Guidelines Clearinghouse.
On June 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a Request for Information (RFI) regarding the physician self-referral law, more commonly known as the Stark law. CMS published the RFI to further its efforts to remove unnecessary obstacles to care coordination and…
The AHA is very pleased that CMS is taking action to improve the operation of the Stark law and counteract its chilling effect on innovation.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule that would eliminate 2014 regulatory text allowing states to reassign Medicaid payments to third parties on behalf of certain providers.